A 13-year-old lady from Uttar Pradesh, India, was allegedly raped by a police officer whereas attempting to file a report that she'd been gang-raped.

Based on native media, the officer has since been arrested. Moreover, these posted on the station throughout the time of the alleged incident have been "faraway from obligation," mentioned NDTV.

In an official grievance to the police, the lady's father claimed that on April 22, his daughter was "lured by 4 males" and brought to Bhopal—a metropolis in Madhya Pradesh, India—the place she was "raped" for 4 days. The boys then dropped her off at a police station in Lalitpur, Uttar Pradesh and fled the scene.

The lady was initially handed over to her aunt; nevertheless, she returned the next day to file a report. That's when "the accused official took the lady inside a room within the police station within the presence of her aunt and raped her," said NDTV.

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A 13-year-old lady from Uttar Pradesh, India was allegedly raped by a police officer whereas attempting to file a report that she’d been gang-raped. istock/z1b

In a press release obtained by the BBC, Lalitpur district police chief Nikhil Pathak mentioned the lady was later delivered to his workplace by a member of the CHILDLINE India Basis—a non-governmental group that operates a phone hotline for kids in misery. When the teenager instructed Pathak what had occurred to her, he filed a case towards the officer.

Knowledge from Statista revealed that Uttar Pradesh reported the second-highest variety of rape circumstances throughout India in 2020, with 2,769 circumstances. Additional, the state noticed a complete of fifty,000 crimes towards girls that very same 12 months, in line with the BBC.

"[Police data] confirmed that 2,796 girls have been raped, 9,257 girls have been kidnapped, 2,302 brides have been killed for bringing in inadequate dowries and not less than 23 girls have been doused with acid," said the BBC. "And in line with [the National Family Health Survey], 35 % of married girls within the state had skilled spousal violence."

With these numbers in thoughts, India As we speak known as Uttar Pradesh certainly one of India's 10 "most harmful states for ladies" in 2020.

In a collection of tweets on Sunday, senior Congress get together chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed that the regulation and order reforms vital for ladies's security in Uttar Pradesh are "being suppressed."

"The gang-rape of a 13-year-old lady in Lalitpur after which raped by an [officer] after taking a grievance exhibits how real regulation and order reforms are being suppressed within the noise of 'bulldozers,'" she tweeted, in line with a offered translation.

"If police stations will not be secure for ladies, then the place will they go to [make] complaints? Has the UP authorities significantly thought to extend the deployment of girls in police stations, to make police stations secure for ladies?" she requested.

"To stop such incidents, critical steps should be taken for ladies's security and women-friendly regulation and order," she concluded.

Sadly, this would not be the primary grotesque story from Uttar Pradesh to make headlines. In June, an Uttar Pradesh man killed his spouse as a result of she was taking too lengthy to serve his salad. Additionally in June, a person married his bride's sister after his bride collapsed and died on the altar.

And in February, 13 folks died at a marriage in Uttar Pradesh after falling right into a nicely.